A roadmap for lasting hummus in the Middle East

As the latest war around-and-about Israel shimmies and shakes along, I
am driven back to the question of what went wrong. This is a complex
question in
general; but in the specific case of the languages of the parties
involved in this war, I have a theory.

But it was not always so! Both Arabic and Hebrew once used the same
script, a script which is clearly superior to either of its
modern descendents.
But then some sly boots sometime around 0.00 AD (give or take a few
centuries) decided to pull some sort of fontographic bait-and-switch:
Hebrew changed its lettershapes to the fashionably awful Aramaic style
which is only slightly more readable that rows upon rows of Yijing
hexagrams, and Arabic switched its lettershapes to context-sensitive
Gregg Shorthand scribblese with a forward-looking emphasis on
unreadability and pain. This distracts everyone from their duties of 1) making me hummus, and 2) not killing eachother.

And soon after, it was observed that the results of the script changes were
bad, but instead of fixing the basic problem, new layers of
insulation were added, and each writing system sprouted its own set
of endlessly "helpful" vowel points and accents and matres lectionis and doohickii and hummina humminas.
You will recognize this "don't bother fixing, just add a wrapper"
approach, for this is how we got
Clippy,
and federalism. And this is what drives people to drink, to
rant, to seethe, and to wage ceaseless inter-ethnic border wars.

I don't yet know what to do about these swarms of accents
(altho I
have a rough idea) -- but I say it's never too late to begin the
healing by fixing the basic problem: the alphabet.

Yes, it's time for Hebrew and Arabic to go back to the nice,
simple, happy, old-timey Phoenecian letter-shapes.
And because this is the Information Age, this changeover can
be automated! Using the power of fonts!

Now, I'm no font wizard. But just to start the ball rolling, I have
snared a Phoenecian font from somewhere, and overlaid its characters
onto the Arabic and Hebrew Unicode code-points, much as
the Unicode folks back in the day folded together Japanese and Chinese
characters as "Unihan". My resulting font, "Unishem Eshmoon"
(actually expressed as two files, for annoying technical reasons) is
just a prototype, but already you can see the improvement--
here's the before-and-after,
for Hebrew
and
for Arabic.

It's still experimental, but you can be among the first to jump
on this bandwagon and use Phoenecian/Unishem for all your Hebrew and
Arabic text-processing needs. And then the cloud of
typography-induced ennui will waft away from the Middle East,
the missiles will stop flying, the fountains will be turned on, the giant peaches will be brought out, and
all those border checkpoints will be replaced with little diners
serving really good falafel and hummus.